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Rapid descent seen in crash that killed 2 in Ark.

A preliminary report from the National Transportation Safety Board says a plane descended at a high rate of speed before crashing in western Arkansas, killing an Oklahoma couple.

The NTSB report didn't list a cause for the crash that killed Ivan Williams III and his wife, Adina Beth Williams. But the report noted that Ivan Williams advised air traffic controllers of bad weather along his flight route.

The report says a controller advised Williams to fly around the stormy weather. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports (http://bit.ly/1hMzhzL ) that witnesses saw the plane descending quickly shortly before controllers lost radio contact with Williams.

The plane's wreckage was discovered a day after the Oct. 21 crash near Huntsville.

Williams was president and chief executive officer of Williams Construction Co. in Pryor, Okla.

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